If only more new country boys were as old country self-deprecating as you, the world would be a better place.

But I hope you enjoy the music from zi jerman boy. Music knows no social strata. Beethoven wasn't the von (akin to Sir) Beethoven he made others believe he was.

It's just fancy words I guess. Just borrowed. Science is littered with it. I may have been infected. My crime is that I may not be able to write it so that anyone can readily understand. In my opinion that is what it is all about. One language should easily be able to bridge all divides.

It's also just me: I may sometimes talk SZ-like rubbish. Just how my brain works. Don't confuse that with anything other than being unable to communicate properly. In science it just doesn't matter because if no-one understands, you must be right. Lots of pride.

Some take the next step and only use mathematical formulae where words would do perfectly fine, just to be more right still: anything math-like must certainly be valid. Being a linguist, it's like a personal affront.

But it's also just assumptions. Especially in Britain. People assume I must be well-off. At university, when manic and mixed, they assumed I didn't do what I was supposed to because I could afford it.

I speak to homeless people who assume the same. Many are probably a lot less crazy than I am. I miss chances and spend all my money continuously.

Same with spoken language. I speak the Queen's English, pretty much: really posh. I am not gonna change that because it matters not.

People assume too much: I listen to Lennon and Dylan and despise authority and elitism. Hell, I don't believe in their reality, let alone their values.

In another thread I talked about Steve Jobs. Multibillionaire wearing trainers and jeans. I just am the opposite: don't own much more than a guitar, piano, sofa, table, laptop and six pair of exactly the same shoes I recently bought (ok, maybe some mild manic behaviour ).

So, no assumptions. Self-deprecation is a virtue. Formal (as in form; cf. functional/essential; class) assumptions are definitely not. Though also rather jolly good fun.

I also just think (and talk) too much. Like there are two of me: one manic and not wanting to shut up, tiring me. Maybe you were semi-right.

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Wow, look at all that text! /: Sorry, Tigger.

Basically, just: book, cover. Me idiot.